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Photograph: Todd Selby

It's not often that you get the chance to snoop around Karl Lagerfeld's
studio, Erin Wasson's living room or Helena Christensen's kitchen. But for
the past two years, the New York-based photographer Todd Selby has been
travelling the world, snapping the interiors of film-makers, designers,
models, sculptors, musicians and artists, most of whom are friends of
friends, and posting the images on his blog, theselby.com.
Now, his informal, documentary-style images of more than 30 spaces - many of
which don't appear on the website - have been brought together in a new
book.

For Selby, who has given up his day job as a portrait photographer to
concentrate on the project, it is important that the interiors he shoots are
as creative as the people themselves. "I like people who are exciting,
who collect and make things, and I'm interested in spaces that are
humanistic. Minimalism is boring," he says. "I wanted